These 9 Insane Polar Express Train Rides Will Make You Wish It Were Christmas Right Now

Hey! It's almost Christmas! Well, OK, at the time of this post it's middle-to-late October, which is basically Christmas. It's also just about the time you should start buying Polar Express tickets, should that be something you and your fam are into. Here are your very best options!

Sure, this Polar Expresslooks great, but what's really spectacular is its Cocoa Class Car. Yes, that means you can literally sit in a first class train car where "hot chocolate chefs" are the hosts: "Families will be served cookies and hot chocolate in souvenir mugs while being seated at table seating." Santa promises to visit every single family on the return trip from the North Pole (Holland Patent, NY) back to Utica, but whatever. Hot chocolate chefs!

This one-hour round trip starts early this year (first rides of the season are on November 23)! While aboard, everyone sings carols, gets to read 'Twas The Night Before Christmas, and receives a candy cane. Sweet!

Again, I know we're all here for the joy and magic of it all, but this Ozarks-crawling Polar Express offers all passengers cookies and hot chocolate. Those who upgrade to premium seating, though, get unlimited refills of hot chocolate...and however many cookies their hearts desire.

This perennial classic is so popular, it's unfortunately already sold out for the 2018 holiday season. We can still talk about how great it is though: those who did manage to snag a ticket will get chocolate milk and a cookie to enjoy while playing with a "We Believe" bell given to them by Mrs. Claus.

In what has to be the most photogenic version of the Polar Express, the "Santa train is pulled by [a] vintage diesel locomotive." Roaming musicians wander the train caroling while you enjoy—wait for it—hot chocolate and a cookie.

The Elf Limited is a bit more activity-based than other festive train rides. Each "elf" aboard will go through "rigorous tests including packaging, toy combobulation, snowballing, mischief making, reindeer grooming, and who knows what other elfscapades." No word on hot chocolate and cookies here, but chances are they're involved at some point post-elfscapades.

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